Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.